Poor magical girls, work for me!

The term "magical girl" as an existence of supernatural power is already widely known from television.

A symbol of purity and sacred power!

But that was only on television.

And now.

A huge ice wall appeared out of nowhere.

This method defies common sense.

The truck's cab crushed the convenience store's automatic door and crashed straight into the ice wall.

A loud bang!

The shelves in the convenience store were in complete disarray.

The translucent ice wall trembled violently, solidly withstanding the full force of the dump truck's blow.

Ryosuke Miyagi watched as the truck cab began to deform, compressing together like a loaf of bread.

Everything quieted down.

The overhead light, hanging halfway up, was making a buzzing sound due to poor contact.

A messy convenience store.

He survived...

You just find it funny that a mere 200 km/h dump truck would try to run you over, but your shop assistant is a magical girl!

But the writhing shadow inside the hood means it's not over yet. You decide to do something! Remind Matsushima Yukio, and tell her the attacking creatures are called worms, and of course, their weaknesses.

[Reward: A concise encyclopedia entry on the mutated creature "Filthy Worm".]

Ryosuke Miyagi's mind began to fill with a wealth of knowledge about the Corruption Creepers.

The Rotten Worms are low-level demonic creatures that thrive on filthy, plague-infested energy, composed of rotten plague and insectic mutations. They often live by parasitizing humans.

Humans parasitized by the Corrupted Worms become infected parasites. They still have a human form but have lost their autonomy and are completely controlled by the worms. They are "mobile containers" for monsters to move through living bodies.

These parasites retain human mobility, and their bodies emit a faint black miasma from their pores and wounds. Their skin has a grayish-rotten color, and their whites of their eyes are cloudy and covered with black mist. They move quickly and have extremely strong attack power. Touching them will infect you with the power of plague and decay.

Weaknesses: strong light, high temperature explosion, precise freezing.

"Thankfully... I made it in time."

Matsushima Yukio thought it was all over and relaxed completely.

She turned around and held her wand out to Ryosuke Miyagi.

His face was full of apology.

"Ryosuke-kun, I'm so sorry—I dragged you into this."

However, once an ordinary person witnesses a world of the extraordinary, that memory must be erased. The existence of magical girls is not something ordinary people should know about. This mess will be dealt with by officials from the magical world later, so….”

Arrogant! As an intruder into the open world, you have never been an ordinary person!

You absolutely cannot let your memories be erased like an idiot!! There's nothing you wouldn't dare to do. You've thought of the figures who walk in the shadows of the city—the Witcher! That's right, the Witcher!

You decide to fabricate an identity! Tell her in a very convincing way! You're a witcher tired of the battlefield, and now you just want a peaceful life!

But actually you're not a witcher, you're just an ordinary person. Nobody cares, though; magical girls are the easiest to fool, they like boys with a story to tell.

[Reward: The Witcher's Hunting Manual (Opening it will grant you the real control panel; hunt monsters and transform into a true Witcher!) Note: As I said, this is an open world!]

The Witcher's Hunting Manual?

This is unlike any knowledge I've ever had before... it seems to be a tangible reward.

And the actual panel...

Ryosuke Miyagi glanced down, and a ball of black, sticky liquid suddenly exploded in his right palm!

The slime began to swirl, and in an instant, a pitch-black parchment book fell into my palm, the cover bearing a lifelike image of a hideous demon's eye.

creak...

The eyes on the book moved; they looked at Matsushima Yukio.

A line of information appeared.

Name: Matsushima Yukio

Occupation: Magical Girl

Level: 2 (1-50)

"Hobbies: I like to eat ice cream, even when my period comes."

"I hate: working to earn money, and I hate strawberry-flavored drinks."

"Current favorability: 10 (Friend) Note: She senses that your identity is not simple, and seems to lean towards evil."

……

I looked up.

Matsushima Yukio's expression was clearly a little off.

Black slime on his right hand, along with a book with the Demon Eye.

Swish!

Her wand was already pointed at Ryosuke Miyagi's nose.

If I don't say something, I might really be misunderstood and frozen into an ice sculpture.

"Senior Yukio, we've worked together for so long, there's something I should tell you. Actually, I'm a demon hunter."

Ryosuke Miyagi opened the Witcher's Handbook in his hand.

The unique emblem of the Witcher appears on the first page.

Matsushima Yukio lowered her head slightly to look over.

A very familiar pattern.

The core of the design is a wolf head relief with slightly exposed fangs, holding a narrow, angled sword in its mouth. The sword's spine is engraved with fine diamond patterns, and the wolf's head is surrounded by intersecting thorn patterns. The vines wrap around half of the sword blade, with varying depths of the patterns and a narrow, swirling cloud pattern border.

It is indeed the insignia of a Witcher.

Matsushima Yukio had no knowledge of this existence. Witchers were aloof, independent, and crude. They hid among the people, possessing great strength, but due to their personalities, few extraordinary individuals could encounter them...

Arrogant and uncouth, that kind of personality was nothing like the Ryosuke Miyagi standing before her. In her memory, this young and gentle shop manager had always been very kind to everyone...

Most of the demon hunters are people who will work for money, but it is undeniable that those hunters who use skills and knowledge are indeed "colleagues" in eliminating monsters.

"The guy who attacked you is still alive."

Ryosuke Miyagi's words interrupted Yukio Matsushima's reverie.

You've successfully fooled this naive magical girl. After all, due to financial pressure, aside from eliminating monsters, Matsushima Yukio is either working or on her way to work.

But things are different now. The hunting manual you possess can be converted into gold coins when you kill monsters!

Although you currently lack combat abilities, the magical girl before you does! She's short of money! Very short of money!

From now on: Yukio-senpai, put in a little more effort in the "fight," senpai! You don't want to miss out on today's demon-hunting reward, do you?

Ryosuke Miyagi is overjoyed!

This Witcher's Hunting Manual in his hand can even drop gold coins!! That's a real cheat code!

He continued speaking.

"Humans infested by the Corruption Worms are not so easy to kill. Their weaknesses are bright light and violent explosions. Your magic must precisely target the location where they reside to kill them, freezing the Corruption Worms completely."

creak creak...

The intermittent sounds made Matsushima Yukio turn around abruptly!

Just as Ryosuke Miyagi said!

That thing isn't dead!

Snapped!

A bloody handprint pressed down on the ice wall.

creak creak...

The deformed front of the car emitted a metallic, twisting sound.

boom! boom! boom!

The fist slammed into the ice wall, the sound rapid and violent!

Just a few moments later, the dark figure jumped down from the gap created by the ice wall.

Matsushima Yukio immediately turned around, gripped her wand with both hands, and pointed the wand forward!

In Ryosuke Miyagi's eyes, the human being parasitized by the filthy worms had a faint red light flashing on his left foot.

"The weakness is the left foot."

The swirling airflow, prompted by Ryosuke Miyagi, shifted downwards and to the right! The airflow, carrying snowflakes, rushed straight towards the shadowy figure's left foot!

Freeze!

Click!

Ice crystals are spreading!

Snapped!

The human body, parasitized by the putrid worms, struggled for a few seconds...

Not moving at all.

Ryosuke Miyagi began turning the pages of the Witcher's Hunting Manual in his hand.

The record on that page reads: The Rotten Worm (Bounty: 50 silver coins).

Splash splash splash splash...

Exquisite silver coins kept falling from the pages of the book to the ground.